| Afrodescendant Resistance to Deracination in Colombia: Massacre at Bellavista-Bojayá-Chocó 2018 Edition Contributor(s): Vergara-Figueroa, Aurora (Author) |
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ISBN: 3319597604 ISBN-13: 9783319597607 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $56.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | World - Caribbean & Latin American - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Policy |
| Dewey: 304.8 |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.89 lbs) 123 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book provides a socio-historical analysis of the 2002 massacre at Bellavista-Bojay -Choc , Colombia. The author examines how the concepts of forced displacement and migration could be formulas for historical erasure. These concepts are used to name populations, such as the survivors of this massacre, and are limited in their ability to contribute to the demands for reparation of the affected populations. Instead, based on an ethnographic study of the pain and suffering generated in the survivors, the book proposes the concept of deracination as a tool to study land dispossession. It captures both the complex local specificities, the global linkages of this phenomenon and the strategies of resistance used by the people of this community to channel what seems as an impossible mourning. |